jp morgan, ruthless banker, went after trying to take over westing howe's company, and westinghouse has to turn to tesla, who had this contract to get a royalty for every horse power of a motor that came out, which was worth billions of dollars, and westinghouse says to him, i'm about to lose my company. can you help me? and tesla, unbelieve whether i horrible businessman and negotiator that he was, says, you have always been kind me, you are the one who is going bring my ideal of this great electric motor to the world. let me tear up my contract. he gave away a billion dollars. and so for the rest of his life he struggled and to be honest he died a poor man, alone in the hotel new yorker. and support -- had declare bankruptcy and was supported only because of a few scientists at the westinghouse company, who realized the had actually made the company possible, gave him a little sty spend so he had a -- stipend so he had a room at the hotel new yorker. that's a long answer but up and down on the money front. any other questions? >> i would like to know, something in our moder team t

is awaiting the trump administration's approval of its acquisition of the nuclear power company westinghouse kushner's lawyer said that the president's son-in-law followed the advice of ethics lawyers concerning the sale of certain assets and, quote, is not in position to comment on business decisions made by others at his former companies since he left. kushner companies designed to comment to "the times." a spokesperson from brookfield denied connection between brookfield and the company's plan to acquire westinghouse, adding that the company had not met with kushner since he joined the white house. >> let's get a check on the weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. are the good people of duluth going to experience bad weather today? >> yeah, the dog is underneath the bed howling. duluth is on the tail end of it. this is a severe line of storms. always we go flu the fothrough forecast today, this is round one. five million people at risk as the cold front tries to cool off the hot area over the top of minnesota. the thunderstorms will cool you off late today. same for suh falls and are

in the past week, as you know, we had profit warnings from general motors, westinghouse appliance maker talking about unintended consequences of steel and aluminum tariffs. they were happy when the administration put -- not happy on the tariffs on washing machines. they did not expect to get hit by the knock on steel tariffs. i think people want a different solution, and they are concerned. ramy: bloomberg editor ros krasny from washington, dc with the latest out of the white house. central banks set the agenda with bank of japan and fed wednesday.uesday and that is followed by the reserve bank of india and bank of england. kathleen hays is in tokyo this week for the bank of japan meeting. there has been speculation governor kuroda may tweak policy. what is the likelihood? kathleen: speculation is red-hot. at the very least if the governor of the bank of japan is not ready to fully announce a step towards a small but powerful, potentially important change in how yield curve control policy is conducted, it will be a surprise because whatever he announces officially he will be just smothe